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Many of us understand the importance of exercise to improve not only our cardiovascular health, but health in general. Despite healthier living, cardiac-related injury or even death can occur in those who appear physically healthy, even athletes. Join Dr Gherardo Finocchiaro as he discusses the aetiology and epidemiology of sudden cardiac death, and the importance of cardiac screening, diagnosis and risk minimisation.
Watch Terry McCormack and Peter Green discuss the national guidelines for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), risk assessment and recommended lipid targets for CVD, and the availability of smart open-access data tools that can reduce health inequalities and improve treatment outcomes for your patients.
COVID-19, and specifically long COVID, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Listen as Professor Banerjee describes his work in this area, especially the STIMULATE-ICP trial, which looks at long COVID’s physiological and social impact. Find out about what the NHS is doing to tackle COVID-19 and its associated cardiovascular and metabolic abnormalities.
Medical technology is rapidly evolving, leading to numerous innovations in healthcare. One such development is the introduction of virtual wards. Join Niall Keenan (West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) as he provides an insight into the benefit of virtual wards. Niall also discusses promising advancements in technology, how virtual wards were implemented locally and what developments we can expect in the future.
Watch Dermot Neely and Paul Hamilton discuss the different biological lipid transport pathways, how we measure lipids in the blood and how to distinguish between beneficial and non-beneficial lipids, and the national guidelines for lipid management in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Watch Ahmet Fuat and Maggie Simpson discuss the recent guidelines for the diagnosis, classification and management of heart failure, including a discussion on the phenotypic subtypes and applicable updated treatment strategies that can help manage your patients with heart failure.
Join Hibba Kurdi as she discusses both the benefits of, and challenges associated with, pursuing research in cardiology. You can also read the first in a four-part series by Hibba and colleagues published in the British Journal of Cardiology.
 

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